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Bill O’Reilly Show Losing Sponsors, But They’re Staying With Fox

Bill O’Reilly Show Losing Sponsors, But They’re Staying With Fox

There’s a new game in Mid-town Manhattan setting tongues wagging as 21st Century Fox has tapped the Paul Weiss firm to investigate claims of sexual harassment against Bill O’Reilly, the most valuable player on the Fox roster. Rumors of Cosby-esque misdeeds have swirled around O’Reilly, like a diaphanous mist, since 2002, but this past week, they settled on him like an impenetrable fog.

Pulitzer Prize Loses All Credibility

Pulitzer Prize Loses All Credibility

It’s no secret in the world of journalism that prizes are coveted and the corresponding accolades revered. As such the Pulitzer prize is the grand-daddy of them all — the big kahuna of journalism prizes. But it seems that long-established Academy Award of the scribes has gone to hell as well. Woe to the scribes and Pharisees whose whitewashed tombs of journalistic ethics which are summarily gone with the wind.

Susan Rice, You Gotta Lotta ‘Splainin’ to Do

Susan Rice, You Gotta Lotta ‘Splainin’ to Do

From 1951 to 1957 television sets across America were tuned into the I love Lucy show. Through tears of laughter, Americans would be treated to Ricky Ricardo asking the same question to his wild and wacky wife Lucy to “splain.” Phrases like “Okay, ‘splain” and “Alright. Start ‘splaining” were common for Ricky to call out Lucy following one of her madcap escapades. For those of us old enough to remember that program it seems a perfect question to ask Susan Rice following her latest fiasco. Ok, Susan, “you got some splainin’ to do.”